Besides stating the obvious about an unfair war, and about the slaughter of the Palestinian people, I have to say that I don't care that much this time about the attack in Gaza. I am quite certain that nothing can come out of it that could benefit neither the Israeli nor the Palestinian people.
There is absolutely no possibility that Israel would attempt to recapture Gaza. On the contrary, such conflicts only strengthen militants like Hamas. There is also no possibility that the Palestinians could gain something out of this conflict. Hamas' blind rockets can never push Israel to a retreat, and definitely do not help them towards Israelis accepting a possible Independent Palestinian state.
The whole conflict looks like a political game by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. With this war "Bibi" is attempting to strengthen himself ahead of January's elections in Israel, just like Ehud Olmert did in December 2008, before his scandals chocked him up.
Besides the internal fronts though, Netanyahu is attempting 3 strikes in 1 go internationally. Firstly, the attacks come as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced that the Palestinian Authority wants to present a bid for non-state UN membership. Who could vote in favour, when rockets come out of Gaza and even reach Tel Aviv?
Secondly, Netanyahu wants to test the waters with Egypt and its new President Mohammed Morsi. This is a very big challenge for the almost 40-year old truce between the 2 Middle East neighbours, but I am almost sure, that Egypt would do nothing to pick it up and somehow intervene... Lastly, though the far right Israeli government is sending a message to America. The message says that even if Mitt Romney was not elected as President of USA - the candidate that Netanyahu obviously supported - 'we as Israel will do whatever we want, and you President Obama can't stop us, whether we slaughter Gazans, or build new illegal settlements in West Bank and East Jerusalem'. There is no point in mentioning that if any other country in the world attempted to do what Israel does, it would already have been bombarded by NATO...
Since everybody is quite sure that Obama and Morsi will do nothing about the attack, and that the Palestinian statehood issue will not go away, but only will be delayed, there is absolutely no interest in this Middle Eastern conflict. I am not going to follow the news with passion about this, because that is what Bibi wants. I don't want to play his game that will have as a result the death of hundreds maybe thousands of innocent people, not to mention that this will include both Israelis and Palestinians.
The only thing I am going to say though is towards Israeli Jews. DON'T FALL FOR THIS. DON'T VOTE FOR NETANYAHU AGAIN. You deserve better. You deserve politicians that can bring peace and hope to the Middle East, - not a representative of the militarist lobby who cares more about creating war, than about major social issues which are choking up Israeli citizens, like food and fuel prices and unemployment. CHANGE your morbid political scene once and for all.
PS: Some believe that Israel is trying to drαg Iran into this conflict. I am sure that this is not the case, as no matter how dumb Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is, he wouldn't fall into such an obvious trap...
GreekRagnaroker
At last, the people of Europe have taken the big decision to unite their voice alltogether against the austerity measures that have been taken against them, during the last 3 years or more. In France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, young and old, union and non-union, public and private sector workers, students, pensioners, men and women will protest against their governments and the rest of the neo-liberal EU, that sees everything and everyone only as numbers, forgetting that they have to do with people.
It has been a very long time now that the neo-deptocracy has tried to put its terms on the table of economy, worker's and human rights. The people should prove that this can't happen anymore, that the workers are not patient anymore, and point their anger to the banks, the multinationals and the governments that serve them. May the 14th of November be the beginning of a new revolution, after which the people will set rules according to needs, not according to grid of a small minority. LET'S EAT THEM ALIVE TOMORROW!
GreekRagnaroker
I watched very carefully all 3 debates between US President Barack Obama and Republican Candidate Mitt Romney, as well as most of the Presidential campaigns. At the beginning I thought that it would be a walk in the park for Obama, even though he did not meet most of the expectations of all mankind for real change, during the last four years. Eventually I was wrong, as Romney is supported by different trusts.
It is well known that the American President did not succeed in cutting down unemployment, and the expected so called "Green energy revolution" never came through, while the biggest economy in the world is still floundering. Nevertheless Obama made a significant change in America's healthcare system, which he now wants to enforce, he took the US troops out of Iraq, as he promised, and bound to take them out of Afghanistan as well, in 2014.
In other words, the militaristic mood of the President is exactly opposite than the one of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and that's the most important issue at stake in these elections. I've heard many times the Republican challenger saying that he has no intention to attack Iran, or to get involved militarily with troops on the ground in the Syrian civil war. He has constantly spoken much more aggressively than Obama though about the role that the US should play in the Middle East, and by the way, he doesn't agree with any military spending cuts.
We have noted of course that the Israeli government and the Jewish lobby have decided to support Romney, and the Israelis are the first who would support an attack on Iran, not now but...yesterday. We also heard Romney claiming that the biggest threat for America is... Russia, bringing us back to the cult 80s' decade and its Cold War climate. Besides, the Republicans criticised Obama because he withdrew the so called missile defence system in Poland.
Russia and China are the 2 major supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, and have blocked countless times at the UN security council the possibility of a foreign military intervention in the Syrian conflict. Apart from criticising their support to a regime that has killed more Arabs than the ones Israel has, throughout its history, the Russians and the Chinese are proving on the one hand that they are a lot stronger nowadays and on the other that the US is no longer the one and only superpower of the not so long ago past.
As we all know, every economic crisis during the last few centuries, comes to an end with a war, and I am under the impression that Romney is ... the man for the job. He says that he doesn't want a war, but to tell you the truth, I have no reason to believe him. If one connects the dots that I mentioned above, it is quite obvious that a possible victory for Romney on Tuesday (6th of November) could bring almost immediately a military intervention in Iran, supposedly in order to stop its nuclear programme and/or in Syria, supposedly to stop the bloodshed created by Assad. I say supposedly in both cases, as they would be just pretexts, in order to follow the commands the imperialistic capitalists demand, who of course want a war, as well as the Netanyahu regime.
Such a development in the turbulent Middle East could probably bring one of the following 2 scenarios. The... good one would be a new Iraq, perhaps a bit more difficult - ie: a long lasting warfare, with very strong resistance by the descendants of the Persian Empire and a huge displeasure to all the Shiite Muslim world. This could bring a new anti-american sentiment around the Middle East and the World, and so all the 4-year efforts of Obama to change the people's idea about the US could be flashed down the toilet within seconds. Also, we could not exclude the possibility of new rounds of the so-called "terrorist" attacks, that could take place in any country involved in such a war.
The other scenario, which is the most frightening, involves the possibility of China and Russia getting involved in such a conflict, militarily, in favour of Iran and/or Syria. Such a development could lead to WWIII (third world war) which unfortunately could involve the use of nuclear weapons, with unpredictable consequences for the planet.
Just to clarify, I am not saying neither that there is no likelihood of any US military involvement in Syria and/or Iran, in case Barack Obama gets re-elected, nor that the probability of a nuclear war would be non-existent, should he win. In any case though, a Republican government could give fewer guarantees for peace, and such a risk is not worthit...
Instead of a postscript, I would like to add a few more facts about both candidates, who are still very close in the most recent polls:
-Obama and Romney are undermining Assad's government in Syria, by supporting the rebels, to whom they never refer to as terrorists, no matter what
-Both candidates are supporting Israel without any hesitations and not the Palestinians
- Both of them do not say a word about Israel's nuclear programme - which the Israelis do not deny of having, illegally - while they condemn the nuclear programme of Iran.
-Both candidates applauded the cold-blooded assassination of Osama bin Laden, instead of accepting that he deserved a fair trial
-None of the two candidates are even implying that the US could recognise the International Court of Justice at the Hague in the Netherlands
-Both of them constantly criticise China and its economic methods
-None of the candidates have mentioned in any debate that Turkey is an important ally for the US
-Both candidates do not use the best language to describe the US-Pakistan alliance
-Neither Obama, nor Romney are expected to lift Cuba's embargo
-Finally, none of the two candidates are seeing optimistically the economic developments in Greece and in all the southern part of the eurozone
GreekRagnaroker
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